The association of sperm antibodies with infertility in 1346 Zebu cattle, including 435 males and 911 females, was serologically investigated. Sperm antibodies were not detected in yearling animals and very few animals were positive for sperm antibodies below the age of 36 months. The proportion of animals, both males and females, with sperm antibodies increased significantly with age (P<0.001)...

Received August 12, 2014; revised manuscript received September 11, 2014; accepted September 23, 2014; released online October 24, 2014 Time for primary review: 12 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (Y.A., T. Noguchi, F.O., R.F., T.K., T. Nagai, K.K., T.A., H.O., S.Y.), Department of Cardiovascular Radiology (Y.M., M.H.), Department of Cardiovascular Pathology (T.M., H.I.-U.), National ...

Received July 24, 2015; accepted October 1, 2015; released online October 23, 2015 Time for primary review: 52 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (T. Toyota, N.S., M.I., H.W., T. Taniguchi, J.T., T.K.), Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (K.M., K.U., H.N., Y.K., K.Y.) and Department of Anesthesiology (H.D.), Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Mailing address: ...

Using bioinformatics software and database, we have characterized the microsatellite pattern in the V. volvacea genome and compared it with microsatellite patterns found in the genomes of four other edible fungi: Coprinopsis cinerea, Schizophyllum commune, Agaricus bisporus, and Pleurotus ostreatus. A total of 1346 microsatellites have been identified, with mono-nucleotides being the most frequ...

Protein phosphorylation regulates a wide range of cellular processes. Here, we report the proteome-wide mapping of in vivo phosphorylation sites in Arabidopsis by using complementary phosphopeptide enrichment techniques coupled with high-accuracy mass spectrometry. Using unfractionated whole cell lysates of Arabidopsis, we identified 2597 phosphopeptides with 2172 high-confidence, unique phosph...

Received November 29, 2012; revised manuscript received December 26, 2012; accepted January 8, 2013; released online February 5, 2013 Time for primary review: 22 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan The Guest Editor for this article was Ken-ichi Hirata, MD. Mailing address: Yoshihiro Fukumoto, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiovascu...

Received February 20, 2014; revised manuscript received May 10, 2014; accepted June 1, 2014; released online July 9, 2014 Time for primary review: 17 days Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan The Guest Editor for this article was Masaaki Ito, MD. Mailing address: Hiroaki Shimokawa, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Card...

The 32-kDa photosystem II protein of the chloroplast is thought to be a target molecule for the herbicide atrazine. The psbA gene coding for this protein was cloned from Solanum nigrum atrazine-susceptible ('S') and atrazine-resistant ('R') biotypes. The 'S' and 'R' genes are identical in nucleotide sequence except for an A to G transition, predicting a Ser to Gly change at codon 264. The same ...